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USS SCORPION a Skipjack Class SSN design flaws
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Originally posted by Tanker View PostThe torpedo theory got me thinking then I remembered something....this;
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This photo is where the "alleged" torpedo hit. Notice the window and sail are in the same direction as the one in the lower picture.
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Notice the hump that Scorpion has? It goes into and is part of the sail in the same spot and in the same shape as the "alleged" torpedo hole.
I'm going to pass on the torpedo theory...
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Things that work in DC....
Sir... You are correct about the Metro!
During a layover I managed to "drift" into DC the day of the earthquake.
Landing just :40 minutes after the final tremor vehicle traffic, as usual, was stacked on the "beltway".
It was the "Metro" that got me to my lodging in Bethesda without further delay.
The system worked flawlessly to and from the old USN yard everyday!
My memories of the Metro go farther back to July 1963 when all the streets in DC were tore up.
The cause of the streets in such disarray, they were building the Metro!
No one carries books anymore.... everyone has a "tablet" Except me ;)
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Originally posted by blidgepump View PostSir... You are correct about the Metro!
During a layover I managed to "drift" into DC the day of the earthquake.
Landing just :40 minutes after the final tremor vehicle traffic, as usual, was stacked on the "beltway".
It was the "Metro" that got me to my lodging in Bethesda without further delay.
The system worked flawlessly to and from the old USN yard everyday!
My memories of the Metro go farther back to July 1963 when all the streets in DC were tore up.
The cause of the streets in such disarray, they were building the Metro!
No one carries books anymore.... everyone has a "tablet" Except me ;)
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I agree with what generally has been said. I was on the William M. Wood DD-715 at the time. A BUNCH of destroyers were ordered to search for Scorpion at sea, after she did not report in. We were scattered along the east coast, ordered to listen for her, in case she was down off the coast and still alive. What a waste of time !
Malfunctions of weapons or bad things happening to batteries, (much less nuclear systems), is always a possibility.
Look at what happened to the Russian submarine Kursk ! They used "cheaper", highly unstable, propellant fuel, and it exploded in the forward torpedo compartment. That warhead was designed to break a US Carrier in two pieces. So when that stuff ignited, . . . Their newer subs will have safer warhead materials, probably solid fuel like on the original Polaris subs.
Safety has to be deliberate and ongoing. Safety on a warship has to be part of the culture. I guess that was part of the price of learning on Scorpion and Thresher.
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Question about the pictures on the previous page: Did anyone notice that in the two different pictures of the sail, they are reversed? So which one is altered?
In one, the chunk taken out is on the bottom right, in the other, it's bottom left. Pretty sure they didn't flip it over down there.
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Originally posted by Pacfanweb View PostQuestion about the pictures on the previous page: Did anyone notice that in the two different pictures of the sail, they are reversed? So which one is altered?
In one, the chunk taken out is on the bottom right, in the other, it's bottom left. Pretty sure they didn't flip it over down there.
He was a righty. The negative was mistakenly reversed and the legend of "the left handed gun" was born.
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